Anyone who has ever been to a Pitt football game has run a fair chance of being befuddled by the incomprehensible chant in the middle of Hail To Pitt. For the record, it's "Alleghenee, genac genac genac." Which leads to another, more pressing question. What on God's green Earth is a genac?
We can't be certain, but the very authoritative *cough* Yahoo Answers guru James C. tell us "The Indians native to this area supposedly referred to what is now known as the Allegheny river as the "Alleghenee" river. The repetition of the "genac" serves as assonance, imitating the sound of the flowing river."
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